Avi Staiman

Avi Staiman is the founder and CEO of Academic Language Experts (ALE), where he works with researchers, universities, and research organizations to strengthen scholarly communication and responsible use of AI across the research process. He has trained more than 30,000 researchers, research managers, and academic professionals across Europe and North America on the effective and ethical use of AI for research and academic writing. Avi is an editor at The Scholarly Kitchen and co-host of the New Books Network Scholarly Communication podcast. He also serves in advisory and expert roles related to AI, research integrity, and scholarly publishing, including with Cureus, CANGARU, and the EARMA Research Management Professional Framework. His work focuses on helping researchers use AI not as a substitute for scholarly judgment, but as a tool to improve efficiency, clarity, accessibility, and the quality of academic communication while maintaining human responsibility for the research and its final output.